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Hackers Ransom European Domino's Customer Data (including Favourite Toppings)

Posted by timothy on from the pineapple-and-olives-kinky dept.

stephendavion (2872091) writes Hackers who compromised the servers of Domino's Pizza have demanded a ransom of €30,000 or they will publish the records of more than 600,000 customers – including their favourite toppings. "Earlier this week, we hacked our way into the servers of Domino's Pizza France and Belgium, who happen to share the same vulnerable database," wrote Rex Mundi [the name the perpetrators go by]. "And boy, did we find some juicy stuff in there!"

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  1. Sad ... by gstoddart · · Score: 2

    And here I thought the Europeans had a much richer food history than to have actually ever ordered pizza from Domino's.

    You're not that far from where pizza was invented, surely you can do better than that.

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    1. Re:Sad ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2

      You're not that far from where pizza was invented, surely you can do better than that.

      Geography fail. Europe is not close to Chicago.

      < getting brick oven ready...>

    2. Re:Sad ... by MrNemesis · · Score: 2

      As a brit with an italian SO, that's about the size of it. In London at least there are lots of good (and some great) pizzerias, almost all of which are owned and run by italians. The superb Franco Manca in Brixton is quite probably the best pizza I've ever had, and this includes some truly excellent pizza restaurants in and around Naples (pizza napoli is, to me, the only style of pizza worth emulating; the SO is from rome and dislikes the "local" style of pizza as well). That said, they're also one of the few places in London where you can consistently get proper fresh mozarella (I can virtually guarantee it's a completely different beast to all the mozzarella you've ever had). Residents of Campania will rarely eat a mozarella more than a day old.

      Never been too keen on the other styles of pizza - as you mention, I find chicago style too bready and too greasy and bears quite a resemblance to pizza sicilia. Pizza romana/lazio is, once again, too thick for me. Sure, there's plenty of places that do perfectly passable thick-crust pizzas but not really to my taste. When I eat pizza I want to taste the ingredients, not bread.

      And then you have places like pizza hut and domino's. Not only do they have a heavy, pre-cooked breadlike crust but they also use heavily processed ingredients, and unsurprisingly they're very popular with people who are more used to the taste of processed foods and ready meals than people who make pizza with fresh ingredients. Given that they don't require fresh food and can be easily thrown together and into an oven, they're also ubiquitous and cheap since they're so much easier to store and prepare and so many people think of this as pizza than the traditional styles.

      That said, we're snobby enough to keep a sourdough culture in the fridge so we can throw some pizza dough together and have a passable pizza from scratch within an hour if we like. Damn, I'm hungry now.

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  2. they'd better pay by rubycodez · · Score: 5, Funny

    or the names of those sick and twisted anchovy lovers will be revealed to the world, and where will they hide their faces then?

  3. Re:Improper use of [sic] in TFA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    It's not improper use, all it means is that it has been transcribed exactly as written. It doesn't matter if the original authors are American, it's there to inform the intended readership that the potentially unexpected spelling is as per the original text.

    If you're going to be a grammar pedant at least get it right.

  4. favorite toppings? by The+Grim+Reefer · · Score: 2

    Unless Domino's is offering baby seal chunks and fried panda bear slices as toppings, I'm no sure how this is worth ten cents, let alone what they are asking for. Other than the embarrassment of having inadequate security. But that's already out of the bag.

    1. Re:favorite toppings? by Opportunist · · Score: 2

      And especially not the "internal" remarks.

      I worked long at the call center for an ISP. Or, as we called it, the "nuts' favorite call in show". We made it a game to come up with fitting nicknames for pretty much every halfway regular caller. Because, well, the regular callers are also usually the more obnoxious ones. Part of it sounded like the lineup for Dick Tracy villains. We had the "mumbler", the "breather", the "shrill bimbo", the "Kazakh" (at first we thought he's Russian, only to find out when we got a Russian speaking coworker that he only put on a fake accent to sound "dangerous"). And we had our lineup of Superheroes. There was "Mr. Dontgetit", "Mrs. Iknowiknow" and "The General" (he usually lamented how he fought for the country and still gets no recognition). And a whole host of people I don't remember for one reason or another. Time is a blessing, it makes you forget...

      Now imagine if the database of these people, along with not too flattering entries, got published. I shudder at the thought.

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  5. give them what they want. by nimbius · · Score: 2

    Whatever they want, give it to them, because if your personal information is among their ransom then its all over. It doesnt matter what your toppings were, or when you ordered, or even why. Europe, and all the world, will know you to have intentionally and willfully placed an order for the worst american export since George Bush. Rumours will spread about your love for country music and before you know it, your allegance to nascar, cold budweiser, and jean shorts will be all but fact in the minds of your brethren.

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  6. Draw a unicorn on the box by jfdavis668 · · Score: 2

    Some politician must have requested that they draw a unicorn on the box.

  7. Re:Improper use of [sic] in TFA by Thanshin · · Score: 2

    in full: sic erat scriptum, "thus was it written

    Also: "Yes, it was actually written like that in the original. It makes me sic."

  8. Re:Hackers limit /. headlines to 80 characters by kav2k · · Score: 2

    The RSS headline is even more hilarious.

    Hackers Ransom European Domino's Customer Data (including Favourite Toppings) For €3

  9. pun by Forget4it · · Score: 3, Funny

    Once they have taken one Pizza Co, the others are bound to fall sooner than later - the Domino theory ...

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  10. Re:Improper use of [sic] in TFA by amias · · Score: 2

    il ya de francais ici , vous et un clod insensitive

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  11. Re:Good hack by Hotawa+Hawk-eye · · Score: 2

    Yeah, it sucks for the actual Nigerian finance minister.

    If I were Domino's, I would consider offering a reward (less than 30000 Euros but still significant) for information leading to the arrest and conviction of these hackers.